Photographic-film cartridge.



PATENTED' MAY l5 H. LB B. GRAY. PHOTOGRAPHIG FILM CARTRIDGE.

APPLICATLON FILED FEB. 4. 1905.

prrr-iran sraras Parana opinion HARRY LE B. GRAY, OF ROCHESTER, NEVl7 YORK, ASSlGNOR TO EASTMAN vKODAK COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF N FNV YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed February 4, 1905. Serial No. 244,120.

T0 all whom) it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY LE B. GRAY, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Photographic-Film Cartridges; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of' the same, reference being had to t e accompanying drawings, forming a part of' the specification, and to the reference-letters marked thereon.

My present invention relates to photographic-film cartridges embodying a strip of sensitized film attached at one end orboth, if, desired, to a strip of flexible opaque material, such as black aper, adapted to serve as a covering for the lm when rolled into a coil and also as backing moving with it through a camera or roll-holder, said stri also having upon it suitable indications or indicating the separate exposures of film and denoting the proper points for severing the same into separate exposures.

Heretofore some difficulty has been experienced inthe use of film-cartridges of theL general type referred to, and by reason of the fact that the marking upon the opaque covering and which are exposed through the sight-hole in the camera or roll-holder were located within the margin of the film, so that when the film and covering were wound together, the` winding and severing marks, which were usually made in, white material, would come in contact with the sensitized surface of the film and perhaps by reasonof the absorption and subsequent dispersion l'of light or radiant energy would cause corresponding marks to be shown in the negatives after development. These marks also might possibly have been formed by theexposure y of the rear of the black pa e1' adjacent the markings and the action o strong'sunlight through the inspection-aperture in'the rear of the camera orholder; but it is sufficient -to say that markings appeared in the developing-film corresponding to those on the covering-pa er. To overcome these objections and at t e same time .preserve the general appearance and manner of' using the wellknown cartridges is the object of m invention, which is accomplished b ma 'ng the coverig-paper a trifle wider t an the sensitized In and locating the indicating and severing-markings upon the wider edge of the black paper, so that they will not contactwith the film when the cartridge is wound into a roll, and will not, therefore, be in a position to cause Said markings to appear upon the film by reason of the relation to the film with the aperture in the camera 0r roll-holder. f

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the cartridge embodying my invention unwound; Fig. 2, aA rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional view through a camera in which the cartridge is used.` Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a filmcartridge embodying my invention partially unwound.

Similar reference-letters in the several figures indicate similar parts.

A indicates the backing or coverinor of fiexible o aque material, referably aper; B t e film attached t ereto at one end by the paper or similar device O. The film, it will be noted, is, as usual, shorter than the covering-stri A, so that the extended ends will effectual y protect the film, and it is also narrower than the paper and is also located its entire length nearer one side thereof, and it is upon this portion of the covering-paper over which the film does not extend that the indicating-marks a are placed, said marks being on the rear of the paper, as shown in Fig. 2. The film and paper are wound, as usual, upon a spool; but it will be notedthe markings do not when thus wound come in contact with the film.

rlhe cameras and roll-holders in which these cartridges are used are arranged generally as shown in Fig. 3, with the sightaperture D, covered by the colored glass E or other material, arranged so that the edge of thepaper only will be exposed and the film will not be.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a cartridge and its spool with the film and paper partially unwound.'

l claim as my invention- 1. A photographic-film cartridge embody-` black' ssA IOO

as to be clear of the markings thel'enwhen the l 3. A photographic-film cartridge embodyilni and covering-strip are Wound into a coil. l ing a strip of flexible sensitized photographic 2. A photographic cartridge embodying a i film, and a covering-.Strip of flexible opaque spool' havingllanged ends, a covering-strip of i material attached thereto at one end, said flexible opaque material anda strip of flexicovering-strip being Wider and longer than ble sensitized iilin connected to the coveringthe film and having at one edge suitable Strip and Wound therewith on the spool, said markings located cut of Contact with the film covering-strip being' longer and Wider than i when the strips are Wound together.

the lin and having at one edge suitable in- HARRT LEB. GRAY.

dicating-niarkings beyond the edge of the l Witnesses:

lin and not covered by the latter when GJW'iLLARD RICH,

Wound on the spool. t RUSSELL B. GiuFFiTi-I. 

